The protesters who recently blocked the westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge should be criminally prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and additionally held civilly liable to all of those that they affected.

I fully support peaceful and lawful protests, but I do not wherein protesters knowingly and willfully break the laws.

According to the news reports, their proven actions, “which had been planned months in advance,” support that they criminally violated the law (Ca. Penal Code section 182 — Conspiracy).

In addition, their obstructing and preventing others’ free use of their “personal liberty” also is another serious crime (Ca. Penal Code section 236 — False Imprisonment).

Their unlawful actions essentially held many motorists and individuals captive in place/traffic for almost an hour, violating their freedom of movement and their civil rights.

The involved protesters knowingly and willfully previously planned and ultimately did carry out their conspiracy, and their illegal actions should not just be mildly written off or prosecuted as a “public nuisance and unlawful assembly” (as the news reported).

And, it is not fair that the police have to respond to and act as part of their duties to deal with these unlawful acts of protests, costing a great deal of public safety money to just address these illegal things.

The expense and unrealistic use of our public resources too should be fully reimbursed by all of the protesters! There are many ways in which they could have legally protested without breaking the laws or affected others’ rights.

I have done so over many previous years in a number of protests, to include peacefully educating and informing the public at large.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was for protecting everyone’s rights and he did not support setting aside those rights in doing so.

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